The Sub-Committee has agreed on the seriousness of the issue raised in the Human Rights Watch’s report, and has ordered the European Commission to come back with data of how and where the billions of dollars in development aid have been spent in Ethiopia. It is not clear whether the European Commission plans to collect the data itself – independent of the Ethiopian regime, which many have accused of fabricating development and growth data for political reasons. For instance, the Financial Times, a respected business publication, has called the GDP data from the Zenawi government as “dubious statistics.”